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- 1970 - 1975 (Creation)
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The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.
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Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society:
1970
- 8 January: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'Thai Dance Drama'.
- 21 January: Professor D.M. Lang, 'Cultures of the Caucasus'. This lecture was held in Edinburgh.
- 12 February: Dr V.J. Parry, 'Some Aspects of Ottoman Warfare'.
- 12 March: Dr L.E.R. Picken, 'Music at the T'ang Court'.
- 9 April: James Bynon, 'Berber Songs from the Atlas Mountains'.
- 28 May: Dr G. Fehérvári, 'Persian Lacquer-Painted Books'. This lecture was held in Durham.
- 11 June: Clifford Owen, 'Hunting with Animals'.
- 15 October: Dr J.R. Marr, 'Some Botanists of South and South-East Asia'. This was the Burkill Memorial Lecture held jointly with the Linnnean Society.
- 12 November: Dr J.C. Harle, 'Early Western Calukya Sculpture'.
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10 December: G.W. Seager, 'Oriental Carpets and Rugs of Tent, Village and Town'.
1971
- 14 January: Dr G.B. Milner, 'Homo Ridens: Towards a New Theory of Laughter'.
- 11 February: Dr J.D. Latham, 'Al-Andalus and the Destinies of Barbary'.
- 16 February: Dr J.S. Cummins, 'The Pei-T'ang Library in Peking'. This lecture was held in Sheffield.
- 11 March: Dr W.E. Skillend, 'The Korean Language in Literature'.
- 1 April: Dr R. Fischer, 'Archaeological Surveys in Afghan Seistan 1960-1970'.
- 10 June: John Irwin, 'Mughal Jades and their Relation to Chinese and West Asian Traditions'.
- 14 October: Dr James Dickie, 'Contemporary Trends in Islamic Architecture in Egypt'.
- 11 November: Miss M.N. Bainbridge, 'The Fifty-Second Day: A Turkish Funeral Rite'.
- 29 November: Professor E.H.S. Simmonds, 'The Three Thai capitals, an Historical and Cultural Commentary'. This lecture was held in Canterbury.
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9 December: A. Hutt, 'Three Minarets in the Kirman Region'.
1972
- 13 January: Dr J.G. Coates, 'An Introduction to Komi-Zryan Literature'.
- 18 January: Basil W. Robinson, 'Persian Miniature Paintings'. This lecture was held in St. Andrews.
- 10 February: D.B. Doe, 'Southern Arabia before Islam: Archaeological Aspects'.
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9 March: Dr H.T. Norris, 'Oriental Myths and Motifs West of the Nile.
*' 8 June: Professor H.L. Shorto, 'Pagan: An Ancient Capital of Burma'. This lecture followed the presentation to Sir Mortimer Wheeler of a special volume of the Journal in his honour.1973
- 11 October: Dr M.A.N. Loewe, 'Recent Archaeological Discoveries in China'.
- 8 November: John Leach, 'Psalteries and Dulcimers of Asia'.
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13 December: Sir Gerard Clauson, 'Apologia'. This lecture was cancelled and replaced by one by E.H.S. Simmonds on 'Love and Nature in Thai Poetry'.
1974
- 10 January: Dr R.F. Gombrich, 'The Prince who Gave Away Everything; The Vessantara Jákarta in Sinhalese Painting'.
- 14 February: John Ayers, 'The Changing View of Chinese Ceramics'.
- 14 March: Dr May Beattie, 'The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Oriental Rugs and Related Pieces'.
- 4 April: Professor W.N. Arafat, 'New Light on the Story of the Banî Quraiza and the Jews of Medina'.
- 13 June: Dr W. O'Flaherty, 'The Indian Jekyll and Hyde: The Myth of Vena, Alias Prthu'.
- 10 October: Dr E. Sollberger, 'A Sumerian "Reformer-King" of the Mid-Third Millennium'. This is a draft.
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14 November: Dr W.G. Archer, 'Patrons of Painting in the Punjab Hills'.
1975
- 9 January: Professor C.R. Bawden, 'The Mongol Epic'.
- 13 February: Dr J. Hansman, 'Excavations at Shahr-i Qumis: A Parthian City in Iran'.
- 10 April: Dr Susan A. Skilliter, 'Catherine de Medici's Turkish ladies-in-waiting'.
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- English